Reply #95: Yeah, that's always the excuse

[sandnsea]

The difference is, I can go down to the second hand clothes store and pick out a first class outfit and shoes. Do my hair and make-up and go anywhere I want, nobody knows the difference.

Poor washes off. Black doesn't. Being a minority is poor x 10.

Certainly we've made alot of progress. But we've never done to any group of people, poor or not, what we're doing to those in New Orleans. It is known that drugs that whites tend to do, especially upper class whites, don't carry the same penalties of minority drug offenses. Racism still exists in this country.

And the fact that young white men who can get the same grants and loans that any minority can get, but refuse to, then blame their poverty on minorities, proves it more than anything else does.